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2 days ago · The United Nations General Assembly adopted the United Nations Convention Against Cybercrime on Tuesday, the first international criminal justice treaty negotiated in over two decades. Adopted without a vote by the 193-member General Assembly, the convention addresses crimes committed using ...
UN adopts landmark cybercrime treaty to tackle digital threats
1 day ago · The United Nations General Assembly adopted the United Nations Convention Against Cybercrime on Tuesday, the first international criminal justice treaty negotiated in over two decades.. Adopted without a vote by the 193-member General Assembly, the convention addresses crimes committed using information and communications technology (ICT) systems. It targets offenses ranging from online fraud ...
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Dec 20, 2024 · Exactly three years ago, I came back to Russia after treatment following my poisoning. I was arrested at the airport. And for three years, I’ve been in prison. And for three years I’ve been answering the same question. Prisoners ask it simply and directly. Prison officials inquire about it ...
US appeals court reverses ruling that Arizona police used excessive ...
5 days ago · A US appeals court on Thursday reversed a lower court’s ruling that police in Phoenix, Arizona used excessive force against protesters outside a Donald Trump rally.. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that qualified immunity applied to the police interactions because the protestors did not cite a case …
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4 days ago · China announced countermeasures against two Canadian organizations and 20 affiliated individuals on Saturday. This decision, published in a statement on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website, is rooted in what China perceives as unwarranted foreign interference in its internal affairs, particularly relating to human rights advocacy regarding China’s human rights record regarding Uyghurs ...
Editorial: America’s Rule of Law in Crisis — A Warning and an …
Nov 4, 2024 · In the wake of a bitterly divisive election campaign, American citizens officially go to the polls on Tuesday, November 5. This is the seventh US election that JURIST has covered since 2000, when for 36 days this university-based legal news non-profit, then not even five years old, chronicled the highs and lows of the recount that only ended when the US Supreme Court effectively stopped the ...
The Erosion of Respect for the Rule of Law in America
Oct 29, 2024 · The US hate group known as the Ku Klux Klan was founded on December 24, 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee as a reaction to reconstruction efforts following the Union victory in the American Civil War.
Editorial: US Supreme Court’s Contrived Immunity Decision
Jul 11, 2024 · In its inaugural intervention, JURIST’s Editorial Board breaks its traditional silence on critical issues in legal news to highlight the perils of the US Supreme Court’s recent presidential immunity decision and the danger it poses to the rule of law in the United States...
A Critique of Biden’s Proposal for Supreme Court Term Limits
Aug 8, 2024 · The author, a professor of Constitutional Law, argues that while President Biden's proposal for 18-year term limits on US Supreme Court Justices has some merit in terms of aligning the Court's composition with election results, the potential threat to judicial independence ultimately outweighs its benefits...
Rule of Law Chronicles: Government Abuse of Power
Apr 22, 2023 · This article is the second in a series covering attacks on the rule of law. The rule of law is a political philosophy premised on the promise that all citizens, leaders, and institutions are accountable to the same laws, guaranteed through processes, practices, and norms that work together to support the equality of all citizens before the law.